Category Archives: Travel

Nearby the hotel is this Italian restaurant which we liked 🙂  It’s across the Museum of Contemporary Art.  There were other good Italian restaurant recommendations, but sometimes convenience wins 🙂 

I liked the Vespa display in front 🙂

It has three floors, this being the second and where we stayed

It’s a cozy place to meet up with friends!  We were so happy to see Mayet.  If you are a regular customer of Rustan’s Supermarket Makati, you will know this lady.  One of our most loyal employees and the best in customer service.  She now lives in Sydney and first worked in David Jones as customer service rep and now moved to America Express  first as Customer Care professional and now Resolution Analyst.  Obviously an expert in customer service.  We love her!

and Tito Henry and Tita Sylvia

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Two or three friends recommended this place, so we made sure to try it.  It was very hard to reserve  so we just got whatever slot was available which was a late lunch.  It was worth it.  Walk towards the port to the Passenger Terminal  

It’s in the corner of the second floor

View from the second floor facing the city

Facade of the restaurant

View of the Harbour Bridge

And supposedly the Opera House but since there as a Cruise Ship docked at that time, this was our view 🙂  

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A restaurant recommended by the concierge.  It’s a beautiful building with an exquisite view.  Since it is inside a complex, I suggest that instead of asking them to call a cab, just walk towards the main street and hail a cab from there.  It’s faster and easier.  

Private dining

Open kitchen

Light bulbs hanging in the middle of the restaurant 🙂  Though it’s sort of blocking the view 

Modern Sashimi – Scallops

 Tuna

Spanner Crabs – Yum!

Degustation

 Ala Carte

Duck Breast, crispy leg, Umeboshi,  fig, pickled eggplant

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My friend, Maj, told me about Adriano Zumbo, the Australian Patisier, so when we walked into the Queen Victoria Building ( QVB ) and saw this,

we immediately lined up to try the macarons.  Here it’s called ZUMBARONS! He has very unique flavours!

Caramel flavour ( Caramel with salted butter ) for us to have a basis of comparison!  YUM!!  It has a generous centre filling!!! 

Stores in Australia close early, so at around 5pm when we went to the mall, the showcase of Zumbo was almost wiped out.  Not too many pastries left displayed.  I caught only these but loved the way they look!!!

Adriano Zumbo even has his own Tim Tam creations

One of our companions on the trip was able to go to the main boutique of Zumbo and took home more macarons!!  And this was my favourite!!!! LOVE!!!!!  I am sure you will find your own favourite too!!

He even has books with many many recipes and nice photos of all his creations!!!!!

A book on just the Zumbarons

FLAVORS!!

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You can even order this for Aus$99

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 Walking down George street by the Rocks, I saw this building in the corner!! Guylian 🙂

I love window eating 🙂  

They have their own version of spread

Chocolates! Chocolates!

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